Nurse Dies Removing Soldiers From War
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- Ben Franklin
Have you seen the white marble statue of British Christian nurse Edith Cavell in London?
In October 1915, she was tied to a stake in German-occupied Belgium and shot as a traitor for the "crime" of assisting soldiers in their flight to neutral Holland.
"After receiving the sacrament, and within minutes of being led out to her death, she said,
'Standing as I do in view of God and eternity, I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness toward anyone.'"
On the base of her London statue are carved the words, "Patriotism is not enough."
She lost her life in the name of somebody else's patriotism.
